Tag: HPC

This 30-page eBook provides step-by-step guidance for installing Agisoft PhotoScan photogrammetry software backed by either Avere vFXT storage or the BeeGFS parallel file system. We show you how to set up PhotoScan on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). High performance storage accelerates processing time, and the results of his benchmark tests are included. This environment can…

Written by Kanchan Mehrotra, Tony Wu, and Rakesh Patil from AzureCAT. Reviewed by Solliance. Edited by Nanette Ray. This article is also available as an eBook: Download the Parallel Virtual File Systems eBook Find previously published parts of this series here: Part 1: Overview Part 2: Lustre on Azure Part 3: GlusterFS on Azure Part…

Written by Kanchan Mehrotra, Tony Wu, and Rakesh Patil from AzureCAT. Reviewed by Solliance. Edited by Nanette Ray. This article is also available as an eBook: Download the Parallel Virtual File Systems eBook Find previously published parts of this series here: Part 1: Overview Part 2: Lustre on Azure Part 3: GlusterFS on Azure …

Get started running your Big Compute workloads on Azure! The AzureCAT HPC team is proud to announce a new framework we created to accelerate the testing of high-performance computing (HPC) applications using Azure Batch pools or Azure CycleCloud clusters. In the past year, we worked with many customers, partners, and software vendors who want to…

Written by Kanchan Mehrotra, Tony Wu, and Rakesh Patil from AzureCAT. Reviewed by Solliance. Edited by Nanette Ray. This article is also available as an eBook: Download the Parallel Virtual File Systems eBook Find Part 1 and Part 2 of the this series here: Part 1: Overview Part 2: Lustre on Azure The GlusterFS file…

Written by Kanchan Mehrotra, Tony Wu, and Rakesh Patil from AzureCAT. Reviewed by Solliance. Edited by Nanette Ray. This article is also available as an eBook: Download the Parallel Virtual File Systems eBook Find Part 1 of the this series here: Part 1: Overview Lustre is currently the most widely used parallel virtual file…

Check out our new Whitepaper! This guide provides recommendations and tools for migrating virtual machines (VMs) in the A8 to A11 sizes. KR Kandavel of AzureCAT tells you how to migrate these legacy HPC clusters into new VM series—such as H, D, E, and F—for better performance with reduced cost. To help reduce downtime for…

Written by Kanchan Mehrotra, Tony Wu, and Rakesh Patil from AzureCAT. Reviewed by Solliance. Edited by Nanette Ray. This article is also available as an eBook: Download the Parallel Virtual File Systems eBook When customers ask our team (AzureCAT) to help them deploy large-scale cluster computing on Microsoft Azure, we tell them about Parallel…

Download the whitepaper: High-performance computing on Microsoft Azure: GlusterFS This guide is an introduction to creating an Azure HPC cluster and HPC storage. Getting started with high-performance computing (HPC) on Azure doesn’t have to be confusing. This article and the resources in the accompanying GitHub repository were designed by the Azure Customer Advisory Team (AzureCAT)…

Download the Parallel Virtual File Systems eBook. This guide documents the results of a series of performance tests on Azure to see how scalable Lustre, GlusterFS, and BeeGFS are. Using a default configuration, the Azure Customer Advisory Team (AzureCAT) discovered how critical performance tuning is when designing Parallel Virtual File Systems (PVFSs) on Azure. Use…